The Hundred Year War Ended?

The media is constantly telling us how we needed Obama Care in order to save our American Economy because we are spending too much on health care. We all know that Obama has publicly stated that the current law is designed to get us to single payer in a few years. Yet some of my friends just don't believe that is what Obama is trying to do.

In a recent discussion with a friend, I pointed out the fact that the Destruction of the iInsurance Industry Act is not about health care and saving money. I pointed to an obvious fact that this has been a dream of the Left, Socialists or Progressives for over a 100 years. His response was basically, "What?"

Well, for in case you need more evidence, here is an admission by President Obama yesterday proving this is not about cost. It is about socialized medicine and granting more and more power to the Almighty State. As stated in this article,

"This notion that somehow we are willing to compromise too much -- this is the public option debate all over again," the president said. "We pass something that Democrats have been fighting for for over 100 years, but because there was a provision in there that they didn't get...somehow that was a sign of weakness and compromise."

If you love liberty, you must learn to fear the State and its natural tendency to accrue power and become despotic. Besides, as Obama says about extending the current tax rate here, we can't afford it.

"In the long run, we simply can't afford them," he said during an afternoon press conference. "And when they expire in two years, I will fight to end them, just as, I suspect, the Republican Party may fight to end the middle-class tax cuts that I champion and that they've opposed."

What is disappointing about this entire debate about taxes is that so-called Republican conservatives grant the bogus presmises of the Political Left. The Left never has to justify its own position or its presuppositions. Our money is theirs, plain and simple. As Bernard Baruch stated in a 1917 speech,

We are now living in a highly advanced stage of socialism. The state is all. The individual only matters if he can serve the state.

Private property rights are fundamental in a free society. The fight over health care is about far more than your health or insurance. It is about liberty and freedom. These things are worth keeping the war on for another Hundred years.